From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#36454: 26.2.90; feature request - Insert char by hex tab completion or C-x 8 RET ffe Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:07:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <<>> <<<87r27016xo.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>>> <<>> <<<4087f726-f9e7-4bc5-a9b3-7d24d9b7f7c5@default>>> <<<2f469306-98d3-8735-4d0d-61aae53321d0@gmail.com>>> <<<8a8360df-afe2-4ae8-abac-96e7691f52a6@default>>> <<<27479297-ab97-106b-7325-5ac6ef5d0b92@gmail.com>>> <<<1981011f-2e19-4f4b-a7ac-8ccd15298b1a@default>>> <<<83k1cfy8mp.fsf@gnu.org>>> <<6251d2e2-5366-4c06-8c42-811d1aa7d5e3@default>> <<831rynwah9.fsf@gnu.org>> <83wogev83t.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="133047"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: van@scratch.space, 36454@debbugs.gnu.org, mrsebastianurban@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 20 01:08:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hobyx-000YRN-5o for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jul 2019 01:08:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48672 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hobyv-0003KO-I3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50031) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hobyt-0003K1-BH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hobys-0007wD-98 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:08:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hobys-0007w0-5N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:08:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hobyr-0001P1-UM for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:08:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:08:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 36454 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: wontfix Original-Received: via spool by 36454-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B36454.15635776665366 (code B ref 36454); Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 36454) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Jul 2019 23:07:46 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56643 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hobyc-0001OU-8S for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37600) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hobyb-0001OH-1M for 36454@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:07:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:40454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hobyV-0007YY-5m; Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hobyU-0007I1-1d; Fri, 19 Jul 2019 19:07:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83wogev83t.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:41:58 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:163439 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Completion is a very poor means for discovery and browsing. There could be better, but I have used completion with C-x 8 RET in the past few weeks to discover characters. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)